WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (29-1, 24 KOs) has accepted newly crowned WBA World 175 lb. champion Badou Jack’s challenge to fight him in a unification match. Stevenson, 39, wanted to fight a unification match against IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Andre “SOG” Ward, but there doesn’t appear to be any interest in making that fight from his side. Stevenson says he wants Jack’s WBA title to add to his collection. Jack (22-1-2, 13 KOs) looked superb last Saturday night in moving up from the 168 lb. division to beat WBA World light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly by a 5th round knockout on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor card on Showtime PPV at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was the best that Jack has looked in a long, long time. Read more http://www.boxingnews24.com/2017/08/adonis-stevenson-accepts-badou-jacks-challenge/
